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Anecdotally based on my kid (n=1), stopping screen time about an hour before bedtime helps.

However, she still seems wired to fall sleep at a certain time, and we finally decided that fighting biology is a losing battle. The strategy of moving bedtime a little bit earlier each day didn't work at all.

Dynamite recently had a Nancy Drew miniseries comic

I mean, my impression from reading 19th century novels is that people used to just slip into a convenient glen or wooded area, it wasn't that hard before the industrial era.

Counter-point: When you fly to another time zone, your body naturally adjusts to the new local time. If sleep cycles were totally malleable, you would just stay on your original sleep cycle until you decided to change it.

As I get older, there are fewer people I actively dislike, but I also have less patience to spend on people I don't actively like.

> Maybe we should replace them by people who are able to problem solve in the face of adversity.

One of our political parties has been paid to ensure that doesn't happen.

guck yes!

Or use versioning and a package manager. You should be able to introduce vNext and then have each service update at its own pace, with a deprecation strategy so that service owners are responsible to get off the old version by such-and-such time. But as others mentioned, part of the problem seems to be too many services given the size of the team.

I used this pattern a lot writing Win32 / COM code.

Blurg, now every tooling pipeline that uses JSON needs to include a JSMin step...

Exactly - spiritual awakening might do just the opposite of making someone a contented worker.

I hate this trend where things that exist to help us grow as humans (meditation, arts and humanities, exercise) are repurposed by corporate HR to make us into better (i.e., more efficient) workers.

I think "vignettes" is a good way to look at them. They aren't really plot-driven, rather each one builds to a psychological or spiritual moment, what Joyce called "epiphanies"

I think it's meant to be a pun on "great white whale" - there's an idea of the "Great American Novel" which is the mythical book standing at the apex of American literature.

Moby-Dick is both a template for the Great American Novel and a convenient metaphor for authors who chase it. It's an old-fashioned way of thinking about the novel.

And this may be a contentious statement, but: It's probably not a coincidence that the traditional contenders for "Great American Novelist" have tended to be white males. Roth, Bellow, Updike, but also Hemingway, Pynchon, Gaddis, etc.

That doesn't detract from those authors' accomplishments. I think it says more about how the canon has evolved.

On the other hand ... as a kid I roamed around, but I always had a quarter for the payphone just in case of emergency. Cell phone is the modern equivalent.

That's a great point. The community votes on whether an answer is helpful, so why not vote on whether a related question is actually related?

+1

Another nice thing about that series, for an early reader, is you can read one character and your child takes the other.

I read a ton of graphic novels with my 6-year-old

- DC Super Hero Girls

- Cleopatra in Space

- Adventure Time

- Zite the Spacegirl

But "what is happiness" and "what is the good life" are themselves philosophical questions.

Many years ago I got to see a Warhol retrospective at MoMA, and seeing the early works in person was a revelation. My own tastes leaned more toward the "traditional" abstract expressionists and I thought Warhol was too "surface" and not interesting or deep. But seeing them on walls, they're wonderful - playful, vibrant, visually striking. The later work tapers off imo - from some accounts that I've read, the decline happened after he was shot.

It's hard enough to get bike lines built, let alone a separate road system.

Private prisons monetize prisoners, so releasing someone is demonetization. (I joke ... sort of.)

Somebody disagrees with 'x' does not make 'x' partisan.